Awaken Sensitivity: Guidance & Meditations for Highly Sensitive Souls with Brenda Carey

After attending her first writing and photography retreat at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, Brenda Carey returned home reflecting on how life’s experiences have shaped her and changed her understanding of courage.

As she navigates midlife, changing identities, and unexpected challenges, Brenda finds herself reconsidering what it means to trust herself through life’s transitions.

In this personal episode, Brenda shares Shaped by Wind and Time, a short piece inspired by a solo hike through the beautiful red rock landscape of Ghost Ranch. What began as a simple afternoon adventure became an opportunity to see herself and the changes she’s been experiencing in a different light.

Join Brenda for a heartfelt reflection on growing older, exploring new possibilities, and recognizing the courage we’ve already lived along the way.

✨ Resources mentioned:

YouTube episode with photos: https://youtu.be/zfe7FG3Nggw

Brenda’s Substack writings: https://www.brendacarey.substack.com

She Who Flows: Guidance for Surrendering to the Divine Feminine (multi-author book featuring Brenda’s chapter): https://amzn.to/46sjBkn

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After hearing about the recent school shooting in Oregon, Brenda found herself sitting with a difficult question: How do we keep our hearts open when the world feels so painful?

As a mother and highly sensitive person, Brenda reflects on how deeply tragic news can affect us. The search for answers can leave us overwhelmed by grief, anger, and fear, making it difficult to be present with what we’re feeling.

In this heartfelt episode, Brenda shares her thoughts on recognizing when we’ve taken in enough information, allowing difficult emotions without becoming consumed by them, and choosing compassion even when we cannot make sense of another person’s actions.

The episode concludes with a minute of silence, inviting listeners to offer prayers, loving intentions, or quiet reflection for everyone affected by violence and tragedy. A reminder to care for our own hearts while remembering our connection to one another.

Brenda’s Substack writings: https://www.brendacarey.substack.com

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What happens when an experience you’ve been looking forward to turns out completely differently than you hoped?

In this episode of Awaken Sensitivity, Brenda Carey shares an audio reading of her latest New Moon writing, Possibility After Disappointment. Inspired by two very different days in Glacier National Park, she reflects on disappointment, expectations, and those times when life simply doesn’t unfold the way we imagined.

Sometimes we try again and things change. Sometimes they don’t. And honestly, sometimes disappointment is simply disappointment. Perhaps the question is whether we can acknowledge what we’re feeling while staying open to what might still be possible.

✍️Read the original Substack writing and see the beautiful photos from Brenda’s experience in Glacier National Park: https://brendacarey.substack.com/p/possibility-after-disappointment?r=okbrc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

📖Explore She Who Flows: Surrendering to the Divine Feminine, featuring Brenda’s chapter “Listening to the Divine Within”: https://amzn.to/46sjBkn

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Have you ever spent so much time trying to make the right decision that you end up not making one at all?

For highly sensitive people and deep thinkers, thoughtful decision-making can sometimes turn into overthinking. We research, weigh every option, listen to our intuition, ask for advice, and keep searching, hoping eventually we’ll feel completely certain about what to do.

In this episode of Awaken Sensitivity, Brenda Carey explores the subtle difference between thoughtful discernment and searching for certainty. Drawing from her own experiences with publishing her first book and navigating the changes of menopause, she reflects on what happens when the desire to make the “right” decision begins to keep us stuck.

If you tend to overthink decisions, second-guess yourself, or search for certainty before moving forward, this reflection invites you to loosen the pressure to get it right and reconnect with the wisdom already within you.

✨ Resources mentioned:

Brenda’s Substack writings:

https://www.brendacarey.substack.com

She Who Flows: Guidance for Surrendering to the Divine Feminine (multi-author book featuring Brenda’s chapter): https://amzn.to/46sjBkn

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What happens when we’re ready for change but still want to know where it will lead?

Uncertainty can make us hold even tighter to what feels familiar. We may search for answers, reassurance, or a clear path forward before allowing ourselves to take the next step.

In this reflection and guided meditation with Brenda Carey, you’ll spend time beside a flowing creek and explore what it feels like to soften your need for certainty. You don’t have to let go before you’re ready. And you don’t have to know exactly what comes next to begin trusting yourself.

This meditation is an invitation to loosen your grip, listen to your Inner Wisdom, and trust yourself to find your way as the path unfolds.

If you’d like to stay connected, I’d love to have you join me on Substack for monthly reflections and contemplative writings for sensitive souls.

https://www.brendacarey.substack.com

You can also find my writing in the multi-author book She Who Flows: Guidance for Surrendering to the Divine Feminine (multi-author book featuring Brenda’s chapter): https://amzn.to/46sjBkn

Every fall, we are reminded to let go. But what if sometimes we try to let go too soon?

In this reflection and guided meditation with Brenda Carey, we explore the resistance that can arise during seasons of change and what happens when, instead of trying to overcome it, we become curious about what we are still holding on to.

Through visualization, you’ll be invited to notice where resistance lives within you, listen to what may be beneath it, and give yourself permission to move through change in your own time.

Perhaps letting go doesn’t always begin with release. Sometimes it begins with listening.

This is the first episode of a new season of the Awaken Sensitivity podcast after a summer pause, and I’m grateful to be returning and sharing this space with you. Subscribe to Awaken Sensitivity on your favorite podcast platform to join me for future meditations and contemplative reflections for sensitive souls.

This episode was inspired by my recent Substack writing, When You’re Still Holding On: What Resistance Can Teach Us About Letting Go. Read it here:

https://brendacarey.substack.com/p/when-youre-still-holding-on

Slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with your inner wisdom through the beauty of wildflower season.

In this reflective nature-based episode, Brenda Carey invites you on a Wildflower Scavenger Hunt for the Soul, a gentle journey through Montana’s blooming landscape and the life lessons hidden within each flower. Accompanied by nature sounds and intentional pauses for reflection, you’ll explore themes of wonder, belonging, joy, dignity, timing, and letting go.

Perfect for a quiet walk, time in nature, journaling, or a moment of stillness, this episode encourages you to slow down, notice what arises, and discover the wisdom that often speaks through feelings before words.

🌿 View the accompanying wildflower photos here:https://brendacarey.substack.com/p/9b5b07f6-9252-489d-a46e-581960dabc54

📖 Subscribe to Brenda’s Substack for monthly New Moon reflections:https://brendacarey.substack.com

💚 Explore Brenda’s library of meditations and videos on Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/brendacarey

Brenda Carey is a contemplative writer, meditation guide, and author of an upcoming nature-inspired book for sensitive souls. Through storytelling, nature reflections, and guided practices, she helps sensitive souls reconnect with their inner wisdom and the healing rhythms of the natural world.

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Have you ever wondered if the constant search for healing, spiritual growth, or the next breakthrough is actually keeping you from feeling whole?

In this contemplative reflection for highly sensitive souls, Brenda Carey explores the subtle ways spiritual seeking can become another form of self-improvement, reinforcing the belief that something is still missing or wrong with us. Through personal insights and gentle inquiry, you’ll be invited to examine the difference between growth and striving, healing and hiding, seeking and trusting.

This episode is not about abandoning your spiritual practices. It’s about approaching them from a different place. If you’ve ever felt caught in the cycle of always trying to become a better, more healed, or more awakened version of yourself, this conversation offers a compassionate invitation to pause, breathe, and remember that perhaps nothing is missing.✨ Resources mentioned:

Brenda’s Substack writings: https://www.brendacarey.substack.com

She Who Flows: Guidance for Surrendering to the Divine Feminine (multi-author book featuring Brenda’s chapter): https://amzn.to/46sjBkn

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There are moments in life that remind us how rare and meaningful something can be, and this meditation is an invitation to recognize this within yourself. Guided by Brenda Carey, this gentle meditation for sensitive souls explores self-trust, inner wisdom, and honoring the unique path unfolding within you.

Inspired by the symbolic energy of the Blue Moon, this practice invites listeners to slow down, reconnect with their heart’s quiet knowing, and release the pressure to follow someone else’s timeline. Through grounding breathwork and reflective guidance, Brenda offers a calming space to embrace your authentic nature, trust your own timing, and remember that you do not need to become extraordinary because you already are. Music: Blue Maiden by MoMedeiros88

✨ Resources mentioned:

Brenda’s Substack writings: https://www.brendacarey.substack.com

She Who Flows: Guidance for Surrendering to the Divine Feminine (multi-author book featuring Brenda’s chapter): https://amzn.to/46sjBkn

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Slow down beneath the evening sky with this immersive reflective audio experience accompanied by calming nature sounds, crickets, crackling firelight, birdsong, ambient nighttime music, and contemplative storytelling. In this soothing evening reflection for sensitive souls, Brenda Carey gently guides listeners through sunset, twilight, starlight, and the sacred stillness of the natural world.

Perfect for evening unwinding, nervous system relaxation, mindfulness, emotional grounding, meditation, sleep preparation, or simply reconnecting with the slower rhythm of nature.

This episode explores themes of presence, peace, belonging, oneness, healing, and the mystery of the starry night sky while inviting you to soften, release the energy of the day, and reconnect with your inner wisdom.

🎧Headphones recommended for the full immersive nature sound experience. Music by: Eryliaa, Sound Reality & Lullabies by Nature.

✨Resources mentioned:

Brenda’s Substack writings: https://www.brendacarey.substack.com

She Who Flows: Guidance for Surrendering to the Divine Feminine (multi-author book featuring Brenda’s chapter): https://amzn.to/46sjBkn

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